Shoe for the legs of metal cots and other articles



M. J. WUJEK. SHOE FOR THE LEGS 0F METAL COTS AND OTHER ARTICLES. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII AN} 2, l9.

Pdtented'June 20, 1922.

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MARTIN J. WUJEK, or BUFFALO, nnwYoRK, ASSIGNOR-TOVHARYD MFG. 00., or

. BUFFALO, NEW YonK.

SHOE Fort .THE pass or METAL ooTshND'oTrraR ARTICLES,

, Specification in Letters Patent.

Application-filed January 2, 1917. Serial No. 140,006.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARTIN J. WUJEK,

n a citizen of the United States, residing at metal cots and other articles having legs made from pieces of angle iron or metal bars of angular cross section. The ends of the flanges of these legs are thin and do not afford a broad supporting surface and are also apt to have will mar the floor if the cot or other article is moved or slid about on the floor.

The object of this invention is to provide a shoe of simple and inexpensive construction which can be applied to legs of this sort without appreciably increasing the cost of the article and which will form a broad, flat, smooth bearing surface for the leg adapted to readily slide on the floor or supporting surface.

In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is a perspective view of one corner of a metal cot or' other structure, the leg of which is provided with a shoe embody: ing this invention.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the metal blank from which the shoe is formed, showing by dotted lines the lines on which the blank is folded to form the shoe.

Fig. 3 is an inside elevation, full size, of the lower end of the leg and shoe.

Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation thereof on line 44;, Fig. 5.

Fig. 5 is a sectional plan view thereof on line 55, Fig. 3.

A represents the leg of a cot or other article, the same consisting of an angle-shaped metal bar, such as the angle irons commonly employed in the construction of articles of this sort. B represents the shoe which is applied to the lower end of the leg. This shoe has a horizontal end plate or bearing portion 10 which extends across the lower end of the leg and on which the lower edges of the flanges of the leg rest; upright side portions 11 and 12 which extend upwardly from the horizontal bottom portion at the outer sides of the two flanges of the leg; and securing flaps or portions 13 and 14 which extend from the upright edges of sharp or rough edges which the side portions 11 and 12 and are bent around the upright edges of the flanges of the leg A and bear against the inner faces V of said flanges. curing flaps or extremities embracing the The side portions and seflanges of the leg prevent lateral displacement of the shoe, and the shoe can be se-' curely retained on the leg and prevented from slipping endwise off of the same by pinching the'securing flaps and side portions so as to tightly grip the flanges of the leg. Or, if desired, the securing flaps can be prick-punched or any other suitable expedient adopted for retaining the shoe constructed as described on the leg.

The shoe is readily formed by bending a flat strip of metal or sheetmetal blank of the shape shown in Fig. 2 on the lines indicated by dotted lines in said Fig. 2. Since the blanks from which the shoes are formed have parallel side edges and end edges of similar angularity, they can be cut from metal sheets or strips practically without waste of material and since the shoes are formed simply by bending these flat strips or blanksinto the shape shown and are secured on the legs without additional fastening means, it willbe evident that the shoes can be manufactured and applied to the legs at such small expense as not to appreciably add to thecost of manufacture of the cot or other article. Nevertheless, the shoes provide broad, flat, horizontal surfaces under the ends of the legs by which the legs bear on the floor, thus adapting the cot or flanges of the bar, and securing flaps extending from said side portions around the edges of the flanges of the bar in close contact with the inner sides of said flanges and cooperatingwith said side portions to gripthe flanges of the bar to retain the shoe in place.

2. A shoe for the ends of angle bar legs.

and the like, consisting of a metal piece which fits over the end of the angle bar and has a triangular end plate which extends across the end of the bar, triangular Patented u e 20,1922.

side portions which extend from said end plate along the outer sides of'the flanges of the bar, each of said triangular side por tions having one edge thereof parallel and coincident With the adjacent edge of the flange .iof ithe loar, and having aisecuring flap which extends from "said side portion throughout the length of said edge of: isaid side portion around the edge of the flange -of-the bar along'thednner-s'ide' there0if;'---" VVitne'ss my hand this 26 day of December, 1916.

MARTIN J; WUJEK.

Witnesses JoHN 'E. KRUGER, M. SCHLEGI-Ilr Certificate of Correction.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,420,602, ranted June 20, 1922, upon the a plication of Martin J. Wujek, of Buffalo, New ork, for an improvement in hoes for the Legs of Metal Cots and Other Articles, errors appear requiring correction as follows: Page 1, strike out lines 95 to 107, comprising present claim 1, and line 108, strike out the'numeral 2.; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with these corrections therein that the same may. conform to the record of the case in the Patent Oflice.

Signed and sealed this 5th day of February, A. D., 1924.

[SEAL] WM. A. KINNAN,

Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

